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The Biden administration has quietly admitted that a new proposed energy efficiency rule from the Department of Energy (DOE) could remove up to 50% of current gas stoves from the U.S. market if it is enacted.
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2023 @ 7:43 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Friday, July 22nd, 2022 @ 7:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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At the close of the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized a rule instituting a periodic review process with a sunset provision for all agency regulations that affect small businesses.
Published: Friday, December 17th, 2021 @ 11:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon documents a leading national business group’s dubious political calculation.
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2020 @ 4:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The race between President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has seemingly become more competitive
Published: Tuesday, August 18th, 2020 @ 2:47 am
By: Daily Wire
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Chances are pretty good that you don’t have an extra $40,000 to throw away on new government-mandated expenses this year.
Published: Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 @ 4:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Monday, July 6th, 2020 @ 9:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In higher education, the value of a liberal arts education has been frequently debated. Defenders on the left argue that it exposes students to coursework and teaches critical thinking skills they would otherwise miss.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2019 @ 9:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. House of Representative on Friday, July 13, voted to close a loophole in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, which requires agencies to curtail the regulatory costs on local governments and businesses
Published: Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 6:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The misguided and ultimately debilitating and tragic ban of alcohol that we called Prohibition was, at its core, about control
Published: Friday, December 15th, 2017 @ 1:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-introduced the Separation of Powers Restoration Act (SOPRA), legislation that would restore accountability to the regulatory process and ensure proper judicial review, empowering the courts-not agencies-to interpret all questions of law, including both statut
Published: Thursday, July 20th, 2017 @ 5:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A letter dated July 22, sent by nine Democratic U.S. senators to John Locke Foundation President and CEO Kory Swanson and the heads of 21 other free-market public-policy organizations, restated accusations that the groups are part of a “web of denial” about the role of human activity in climate chan
Published: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016 @ 9:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina was lauded for "impressive reforms" curtailing its regulatory burdens on businesses and individuals, and national policy analysts discussed methods of further reducing costly restrictions during a June 22 teleconference call
Published: Wednesday, July 6th, 2016 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ever since the 2008 financial crash, American business schools have been reeling from criticism. There is a widespread feeling that the financial meltdown was caused by graduates of elite business schools who created fortunes through hedge funds, derivatives, and other financial tricks
Published: Tuesday, June 14th, 2016 @ 1:50 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The Founding Fathers might have been unable to create the foundations of a new American nation had they operated in today's climate of federal government harassment and intrusion into citizen privacy, a constitutional lawyer says
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 4:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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They say "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions," but that doesn't really describe the whole mechanism. The reason that good intentions can cause so many problems is because they lead to actions with unintended consequences.
Published: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015 @ 3:46 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Two years ago, the federal government quietly abandoned its $60 million effort to isolate "green jobs" from employment in other sectors of the economy, a campaign that one key congressman called little more than "propaganda designed to advance a misleading political narrative" and that a former...
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 9:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A recent study concluded that North Carolina's $87 billion state pension fund is the second-best performing plan in the nation, even though new government-mandated accounting methods show it might be underfunded by more than $15 billion instead of operating in the black, as official state figures...
Published: Tuesday, August 5th, 2014 @ 11:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday ruled 2-1 that the federal government cannot tax employers in order to provide health insurance subsidies in North Carolina and 35 other states that refused to establish Obamacare exchanges, potentially threatening the national health reform.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 8:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Some businesses would rather avoid competition and prefer instead to rely on government help in the form of special incentives, regulations, or other anti-competitive policies. Fred Smith has spent his career fighting that approach to business. Smith is founder and chairman of the...
Published: Tuesday, May 13th, 2014 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 @ 9:39 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Barry Obama is trying to appoint the most leftist member of North Carolina’s congressional delegation to a key administration post. And North Carolina’s only Republican senator is trying to help make that happen.
Published: Monday, November 4th, 2013 @ 11:46 am
By: Brant Clifton
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For the second time in recent weeks, a federal judge has issued a ruling favorable to plaintiffs seeking to block the IRS from collecting tax penalties from employers in states such as North Carolina that do not have a state health insurance exchange under Obamacare. If any of several lawsuits...
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2013 @ 8:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the movie Catch Me If You Can the protagonist does a number of things he legally isn't allowed to do because he doesn't have the right education and license. The movie was based on the actual exploits of Frank Abagnale who, among other things, got a job in the Louisiana attorney general's...
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 11:06 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute - an excellent organization based in DC that fights the good fight for the free market - is suing on behalf of some small businesses and individuals to challenge the federal government's authority to collect taxes from the states to finance ObamaCare.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 7:42 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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One of the state's largest business organizations is keeping a close eye on two federal lawsuits challenging the authority of the IRS to collect Obamacare taxes in states, including North Carolina, that did not set up state-run health insurance exchanges.
Published: Tuesday, June 4th, 2013 @ 1:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In this article, I hope to convince grassroots conservatives to unite in the coming year to re-assert founding values and strengthen principles of Liberty and to reject the contorted view of the Constitution that President Barack Obama is pushing on the American people.
Published: Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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